Roger Kahn Quotes

It was a time of transition, which few recognized, and glutting national satisfaction. Students and scholars were silent.

When the wind blew from the south and the French doors had been opened, the sound of cheering carried from Ebbets Field into the apartment. It was astonishing, to hear cheers from a major league crowd while sitting at home.

There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons.

Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press.

Nouns and verbs carry writing.

The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.

The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon.

Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin.

I never heard a thrown ball make that sound before. The ball seemed to accelerate as it came close; an accelerating, impossibly fast pitch that made the noises of hornets and snakes.

At carefree times in early boyhood I chose to believe that life was a kind of ball game, but with a mix of years and perception I learned better.

The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat.

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves.

Being and writing, the road asked nothing more.

One did not go to Ebbets Field for sociology. Exciting baseball was the attraction, and a wonder of the sociological Brooklyn Dodgers was the excitement of their play.